{"id":140100,"date":"2026-02-01T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:54:12","slug":"ground-stop-issued-at-floridas-busiest-airport-as-air-traffic-control-tower-is-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140100\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground stop issued at Florida&#8217;s busiest airport as air traffic control tower is evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1981\/claudia-aoraha.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLAUDIA AORAHA, DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  15:45 EST, 1 February 2026   |  Updated:  16:06 EST, 1 February 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A ground stop was issued on Sunday afternoon at Orlando International Airport amid reports that the air traffic control tower may be on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The tower was evacuated, meaning that all flights in and out of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/florida\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e25ddd00-ffae-11f0-9cff-1fea3ca8ccd4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida<\/a>&#8216;s busiest airport had to be halted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wrote in its notice that the possibility of an extension is &#8216;medium.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The FAA described in the vague advisory that the ground stop was triggered by a &#8216;fire alarm\/safety&#8217; situation and noted that the tower was evacuated due to &#8216;possible fire.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/today\/KMCO\">FlightAware <\/a>data, 213 flights have been delayed at the airport on Sunday.\u00a0At least 33 flights have been canceled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Daily Mail has reached out to Orlando International Airport and the FAA for more information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-333c6eaf403efb84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/106015823-15518171-image-a-9_1769978696946.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A ground stop was issued on Sunday afternoon at Orlando International Airport amid reports that the air traffic control tower may be on fire\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A ground stop was issued on Sunday afternoon at Orlando International Airport amid reports that the air traffic control tower may be on fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is a breaking news story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Ground stop issued at Florida&#8217;s busiest airport as air traffic control tower is evacuated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CLAUDIA AORAHA, DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS Published: 15:45 EST, 1 February 2026 | Updated: 16:06 EST, 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1761,28,115,139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-140100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}